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...doubt the least solemn and forbidding. Class Day is the seniors' own personal farewell to the College; historically, it has been the one activity in the last week where the tune hasn't been called by a conservative Administration. Consequently, Class Day has usually had a quality of strenuous abandon, not to mention drunkenness and obscenity, and more than once, shocked officials have been forced to clamp down the lid in order to preserve the good name of the College...
...West seemed ready to agree to another Big Four conference, and to lift its counter-blockade. But it was not willing to abandon its plans for Western Germany. Day before the Tass announcement, the Western Powers reported full agreement with the West Germans on their proposed constitution. West Germany was closer to statehood than ever before (see below...
...doctor and pharmacist's mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With the help of the Amethyst's Chinese mess...
...vaudeville portion of the program, the acorbats, impresonater, and muscle squad, are as fine a group of performers in their lines as I have ever seen. Particularly incredible is a young blonde girl-acrobat who gets thrown around by her three male companions with such abandon that her hair is consistently dragging along the floor...
...cannot count on friends in Western Europe if our strategy in the event of war dictates that we shall first abandon them to the enemy with a promise of later liberation. Yet that is the only strategy that can prevail if the military balance of power in Europe is to be carried on the wings of our bombers and deposited in reserves on this side of the ocean...